Chrome looks about the same everywhere, emacs is customized within itself and I turn off all the window dressing on the terminals I use (no menus, no scrollbar,

Chrome looks about the same everywhere, emacs is customized within itself and I turn off all the window dressing on the terminals I use (no menus, no scrollbar, nada). Since that sums up 99% of my typical day to day computer usage there's no visual downside to xmonad for me. What looks even better than customized widgets (and I've tweaked emacs theme and the terminal settings to my taste long ago) are nice layouts that arrange all my windows in more or less logical ways automatically. Few things look as bad to me as a mess of randomly sized windows partially overlapping each other!